Encrypted Conversations, Recognizable Workflows: What AI Traffic Reveals
TL;DR for operators Encrypted LLM connections can conceal prompts and responses while exposing recognizable patterns of AI activity. In a controlled benchmark, classifiers using only encrypted response metadata identify broad prompt categories with 67.37% mean accuracy, against a 16.67% chance baseline. Traffic from collaborative agents also reveals task categories, including when only part of the team’s communication is visible. ...